“We’re supposed to be wearing masks,” the host said as I entered a birthday party in Pennsylvania recently. “Whenever my extended family gets together now,” a friend told me, “we argue about whether we all need to wear masks. A number of competing psychological factors can play a role in whether people decide to wear masks. Research suggests, for example, that if few people in a community are wearing a mask, others are more likely to think that these individuals are at increased risk for being infected. But elsewhere, mask wearing runs the gamut.

Source: bd News24 September 12, 2020 06:00 UTC